Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] ufs: sysfs: device descriptor

From: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri Feb 02 2018 - 02:17:51 EST


On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 12:25:46AM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 18:15 +0200, Stanislav Nijnikov wrote:
> > +enum ufs_desc_param_size {
> > + UFS_PARAM_BYTE_SIZE = 1,
> > + UFS_PARAM_WORD_SIZE = 2,
> > + UFS_PARAM_DWORD_SIZE = 4,
> > + UFS_PARAM_QWORD_SIZE = 8,
> > +};
>
> Please do not copy bad naming choices from the Windows kernel into the Linux
> kernel. Using names like WORD / DWORD / QWORD is much less readable than using
> the numeric constants 2, 4, 8. Hence my proposal to leave out the above enum
> completely.

Are you sure those do not come from the spec itself? It's been a while
since I last read it, but for some reason I remember those types of
names being in there. But I might be confusing specs here.

thanks,

greg k-h